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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

90: EPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities

You could also call this:

“EPA can ask for project information from groups and councils to help with applications”

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) can ask for information from certain groups that manage things or from local councils. This information needs to be about a project that’s on a list or has been sent to them. The EPA needs this information to think about an application they have now or expect to get soon.

The EPA can ask for this information before or after they get an application. They can tell the group or council when they need the information by.

The group or council that gets the request must do one of three things:

  1. Give the EPA the information by the date they asked for.
  2. Tell the EPA they have the information but can’t give it by the date asked for.
  3. Tell the EPA they don’t have the information. If they know who does have it, they should tell the EPA.

After the EPA gets the information, they must give it to the person in charge of the panel looking at the application.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Panel consideration of substantive application: EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

90EPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities

  1. This section applies to information that the EPA considers—

  2. is held by a relevant administering agency or a local authority; and
    1. relates to a listed project or a referred project; and
      1. is necessary for considering a current or anticipated substantive application.

        1. The EPA, at any time before or after it receives the substantive application, may request the relevant administering agency or local authority to provide the information and set a date by which the information must be made available.

        2. The relevant administering agency or local authority must,—

        3. within the time specified by the EPA, provide the information requested; or
          1. advise the EPA that the agency or local authority does hold the information but cannot provide it in the time specified by the EPA; or
            1. advise the EPA that the agency or local authority does not hold the information and, if the agency or local authority knows where the information is held, advise the EPA accordingly.

              1. The EPA must provide information that it receives under this section to the panel convener.

              Compare
              • 2020 No 35 Schedule 6 cl 7
              • 2023 No 46 Schedule 10 cl 30